Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

[Email readers, continue here…] What if you were the investor and someone walked into your office handing you a business plan executive summary that floored you with its brilliance? Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise?

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

” And then there are incubators and accelerators. Summary: You don’t need to see every deal. You need to say “no” faster to things you know you’re not going to fund based on fit, focus, geography, quality of concept, conflicts with portfolio. The temptation in our business can be to “take meetings.”

Startup

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

We spoke with Nikhil, to hear why he thinks the site is important for green technology companies and investors, as well as how the effort is related to his own incubation firm, Artilient Labs. We recently ran into Nikhil Jain , CEO of Clean Green Guy (www.cleangreenguy.com), a newly launched online marketplace for green tech deals.

Southern California

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. SEO marketing vs. social marketing.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. When they''re in there, they put in a summary of an athlete. We thought--there has got to be another way. This private coaches network was the topic of a business plan we wrote for an entrepreneurial contest.

Coach

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

What if you were the investor and someone walked into your office handing you a business plan executive summary that floored you with its brilliance? Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? I would not, nor would most all of those I co-invest with.

Venture Capital

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

What if you were the investor and someone walked into your office handing you a business plan executive summary that floored you with its brilliance? Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? I would not, nor would most all of those I co-invest with.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As a summary, crowdfunding today can mean any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. m are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

An elevator pitch is a problem-solution summary that anyone can understand in a sixty-second ride up to their office in an elevator. There are many resources out there to help you make it happen, including incubators, accelerators, advisors, mentors, and even investors. Avoid fuzzy goals, like making big money or being a market leader.

Writing

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

Here is my summary of the ten top creativity mistakes we both still see too often: Criticize any new idea or employee suggestion. It is better to put new products or services into a new or special department, sometimes known as an innovation incubator, to get the focus they require.

Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Invest

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Here is my summary of the ten top creativity mistakes we both still see too often: Criticize any new idea or employee suggestion. It is better to put new products or services into a new or special department, sometimes known as an innovation incubator, to get the focus they require.

Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Invest

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

Coworking and incubator spaces are great sources as are lawyers and bankers. Build your financial model from the bottom-up showing what your average sale looks like and how it feeds into your top level summary financial picture. Venture debt. Customer financing can minimize your risk, providing more cushion to meet your milestones.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Summary of Topics. Peter Csathy – CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures, accomplished media and digital media entrepreneur. Get yourself up to speed by reading through JATI, Inc.’s

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Here is my summary of the ten top creativity mistakes we both still see too often: Criticize any new idea or employee suggestion. It is better to put new products or services into a new or special department, sometimes known as an innovation incubator, to get the focus they require.

Ideas

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

– Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. Incubation 3. StrongMail Systems, Inc. Relaxing 2. Go-to-Market 5.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

This is just a quick summary. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. We have some plans in the work for Phase III of Launchpad. What have I learned? What does this say about accelerators in general? So having been on this journey now for 5+ years what have a learned? Quality endures.

Venture Capital